#a choice of accommodations

[hometownrockstar]

I hate the argument abt when you say customizable games should have fat people and people say "well it would be harder to model or scale clothes to fit" cause like i guess youre technically right, but why then are fat people not seen as worth the effort to actually code and model these things? Someone else said this abt baldur's gate but they said "in an RPG like that game shouldn't the priority be on allowing people to express themselves as much as possible with designing their character?" Also like fat people aren't a rarity or minority, even if all media ever wants to give people the impression that the world is 99% skinny people with maybe one or two fat villains or sidekick friends.

[adhdandcomics]

perhaps the most important question i’ve ever asked:

does anyone have tips for people trying to stop being chronically late to everything in the world that aren’t weirdly judgmental and aggressive or flat out lies

[psychoticallytrans]

There are three main models of disability that are in common use. The moral model, the medical model, and the social model.

You may not have heard of the moral model before, but if you are disabled, you have felt the impact of it. The moral model is disability as a failure of character. It sources the problem of disability in the character of the disabled person. It's the people who insist that if you just tried harder, were better, had a better attitude, that you would no longer be disabled. It is a model that is used by ableists in order to conceptualize of disability as a failing of the individual. An extreme example of this mindset are the Christian Scientists, who believe that all illnesses and disabilities should be healed by the grace of their god and that if you are not healed, something is wrong with you. It is the the most cruel of the models, and the least successful at assisting disabled people.

The medical model is the model used by the medical establishment and by those who put their stock in medical authority. It sources the problem of disability in the body. It measures disability against a theoretical average person, and seeks to make disabled people match that average person more closely. This model works very well for disabled people with disabilities that can be measured, have a potential treatment plan, and want their disability gone. It does not work very well for people who do not match all three criteria. If they match the first and second but not the third, then strict adherents of the medical model often fall back on the moral model, stating that they are stupid, lazy, or selfish for not being interested in being cured. This also often happens if treatment fails to improve the condition of the disabled person.

The social model is a newer model, largely designed by disability activists and scholars and often defined in opposition to the medical model. It sources the problem of disability in the interaction between the disabled person and their physical and social environment. It argues that the solution of disability is to change the environment so that impairments are no longer an issue. This model works very well for disabled people who consider their disability not to be an issue when fully accommodated. It does not work well for people who consider their disability an inherent impairment and/or desire a cure. Strict adherents of the social model often fall back on the moral model when considering these people, stating that they are short-sighted or that they worship the medical model. These are the people who state things such as that depression would not exist in a world without capitalism.

When a disabled person fails to behave as expected by the model a person has of disability, the moral model is almost always the fallback position, because many people cannot conceive of why someone would disagree with them other than a lack of good character. This is a problem, because the moral model proposes no solution but to ignore or abuse the disabled person until they behave as expected.

Another notable interaction is that adherents of the medical model can often be persuaded to support the more traditional parts of the social model, such as providing large text resources to people with impaired vision, so long as there is empirical research backing it. However, they rarely support more radical arguments that challenge how we define disability and how society should be structured or restructured.

All three models have major failure points. The moral model fails every disabled person it is applied to. The medical and social models both fail different disabled people when adhered to strictly. The best approach at the moment seems to be hybridizing the social and medical models, so that they cover each other's weak points and fit the needs of the widest spectrum of disabled people. The main barrier to this is that they are often defined in opposition to each other.

[scurvgirl]

Returning to @galladrabbles for "You never asked" - something silly for the dash.

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"Never have I ever…been to jail."

"Oh fuck you." Mickey picked up his drink and took a swig while the youngest Gallagher grinned in victory. But Mickey’s revenge was swift.

"Never have I ever gotten an A on a school project."

"I will PROUDLY take a sip." Liam tilted his coke up.

A newly returned Mandy grinned, "Never have I ever slept with a chick."

Mickey took a sip, Lip, Debbie -

"Ian?!" Mickey stared at his husband in shock. No way, no fuckin' way!

Ian grimaced, "You never asked."

"He's got PTSD - pussy traumatic stress disorder!" Everyone, even Ian, laughed.

[molvilkas]

Furstars because cringe is dead and I like making them look like plushies

Ritsu is a Vampire Bat, Shinobu is a Sugar Glider, Hiiro is a Red Fox, Makoto is a Hamster, Wataru is a Bat-Eated Fox (aka. plompy in internet slang), Mayoi is a Big Brown Bat and Hajime is a Holland Lop Rabbit.

[chibishortdeath]

Started playing Fear and Hunger recently and this guy is pretty silly. I like that he likes bugs, that’s a green flag in my book, bugs are great.

Nothing in this post in particular is mature, but the game itself is, it’s a pretty dark horror game, so I’ll be putting some content warnings in the tags so any talk about the game on my account can be filtered out easier!

Some thoughts about the game under a cut :3

I haven’t played as Enki tho, I picked Cahara because he’s easier and it’s my first playthrough, and he’s pretty cool too. I really love the character and monster designs in this game. The art is super cool :3. I’ve had the worst luck this run tho oh my god; I started the game took like two steps and immediately got blindsighted by three dogs. All the enemies in the first left entrance area spawned in the first room. Two elite guards spawned in the room past the prisons instead of the usual one. Moonless would not spawn for like a solid few reloads and then ended up on the bottom of the map instead of the top where they usually are. I talked to Nosramus (love them, they’re great, they were off screen the whole conversation tho whoops) and immediately afterwards got the crow mauler text and had to leave the room. Got D’arce and promptly ran into a yellow mage and lost my arm! It’s been wild and I’m even just playing on easy mode 💀💀💀!!! My computer also kinda sucks and lags sometimes, but yeah! The game is fun!!!!! I have no idea how far I am in it, but I’m almost to where Le’garde is captured. My whole strategy has been fuck around and find out and it’s working XD!!! I kinda expected it to be scarier, but that might be because I’m a little used to horror as a genre in general, but it’s a nice balance of spooky atmosphere and usual RPG action stuff in a way that comes off sincere and not like edgy for the sake of being edgy if that makes sense. It’s cool :3

Anyway there’s a lot of games I’ve started recently and haven’t finished so I guess I’ll be playing those for a while. I still need to beat CV64, I’m just currently stuck on the uh gear platforming section with the bomb. If you know, you know 💀💀💀. It’s hard. I also have to beat Curse of Darkness, but I’m really close to the end in that one I’m just getting all the random side rooms and stuff. Raising more innocent devils besides my main team just to be able to open a door is a little tedious tbh, but eh it’s an excuse to play the game for longer so I’ll take it. But yeah, hopefully life actually lets me beat all these games so I can talk about them more (TwT ;).

[pjharvey-moved]

theyre reviewing my extended deadline accommodation in front of a Committee and apparently the Committee wants a very specific account of why my Condition prevents me from finishing homework assignments on time i don't know why they can't just read the wikipedia pages on adhd and autism it is not that hard to grasp you guys. you work for an academic institution shouldn't you be like, smart

[shaunashipman]

y'all want popular queer artists but then get pissed when they do what all artists do to become popular

[hawkesque]

really cool that my anxiety insists on being as public as humanly possible. god forbid im granted the luxury of privacy

[gayvampyr]

every single answer i got wrong on that exam was a second guess that i changed after initially selecting the correct one 🙃

[cottoncandy-art]

overhauling my ponysona from when I was a kid

she's a living weapon deemed too dangerous to live outside celestia's basement

[msburgundy]

i don't know if i believe anyone can actually be both a dog person and a cat person simultaneously since that is ultimately a lifestyle question. i think most people who claim both are cat people who like dogs

[choixsimple]

I didn't choose to accept that my body has limitations and I didn't choose to develop work/life balance and I didn't choose to start taking sick time and rest more often, those things were forced upon me by my disabilities. I have grown to accept and embrace them so that I am in less pain.

[writerystuff]

And nobody is forced to read a book they don't want to read.

[aces-and-angels]

When you're on a holiday You can't find the words to say All the things that come to you And I wanna feel it too On an island in the sun We'll be playin' and havin' fun And it makes me feel so fine I can't control my brain

song lyrics: island in the sun, weezer; sprites/background: @itlivesproject and @cassiopeiacorvus

read the beach episode or watch it

[idkaguyorsomething]

rose noble absorbed so much of the metacrisis from her mother that she was able to grow 15 years old despite being born in 2010 and the star beast taking place in 2023